Criticism & Theory

Traces the development of the sonnet from its invention in the early Italian Renaissance to the time of John Milton, showing how the form has developed and ...

Interpreting The Genre: The Elegy And The Work Of Mourning -- Spenser: The Shepheardes Calendar And Astrophel -- Where Words Previal Not: Grief, Revenge, An...

The Fruit Of A Lifetime's Reading And Thinking About Literature, Its Delights And Its Responsibilities, This Book By Acclaimed Poet And Critic Anthony Hecht...

According To Harold Bloom, The Best Of Alvin Feinman's Poetry Is As Good As Anything By A Twentieth-century American. His Work Achieves The Greatness Of The...

The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost com...

George Steiner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarLinguistics

Writings by leading critics survey the history of literary analysis from classical antiquityCategories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismMove...

This Book Takes A Snapshot Of A Moving Target: The Ever-shifting Conversation About Today's Poetry. The Ten Essays In This Collection Offer Reflections And ...

For this new edition, the text has been revised and corrected in accordance with the principles of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series. Frye's origi...

National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passio...

To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem—a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that sty...

The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction repr...

Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and discus...

The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory is the most comprehensive collection of poetry from the period ever published. Included are g...

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology...

The Cambridge Companion To Cervantes Offers A Comprehensive Treatment Of Cervantes' Life And Work.Categories: ReferenceWords, Language & Grammar

This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form an...

It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, di...

This is the only anthology to present a full history of Canadian poetry — from the early 1600s through the expansiveness of poetic activity during the 18t...

The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of t...

Provides A Modern Retelling, The Biblical Text, And Historical Background Of The Stories Behind Eve, Potiphar's Wife, Lot's Wife, Delilah, And Other Women P...

it Is A Very Short List Of 20th-century American Plays That Continue To Have The Same Power And Impact As When They First Appeared—57 Years After Its Bro...

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to...

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume...

"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this ha...

In Belle Moral: A Natural History, we are steeped in a world on the cusp between magic and art, and science and madness. Set in 1899 just outside Edinburgh,...

In The Literary Mind, Turner Ranges From The Tools Of Modern Linguistics, To The Recent Work Of Neuroscientists Such As Antonio Damasio And Gerald Edelman, ...

[mitchell] Undertakes To Explore The Nature Of Images By Comparing Them With Words, Or, More Precisely, By Looking At Them From The Viewpoint Of Verbal Lang...

metaphor Is A Central Concept In Literary Studies, But It Is Also Prevalent In Everyday Language And Speech. Recent Literary Theories Such As Postmodernis...

This Collection Presents Fifty Of The Most Essential Poems By One Of History's Greatest Poets In Dynamic New Translations, The Result Of An Unprecedented Co...

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Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Be...

Irwin Traces The Development Of The Stories Within Stories From Prehistoric India And Pharaonic Egypt To Modern Times, Explores Translations, Additions, Imi...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the underlying connections be...

As a teenager during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident...

Drones Are In The Newspaper, On The Tv Screen, Swarming Through The Networks, And Soon, We're Told, They'll Be Delivering Our Shopping. But What Are Drones?...

grace Nichols Gives Us Images That Stare Us Straight In The Eye—images Of Joy, And Images That Challenge And Accuse. Her Fat Black Woman Is Brash, Rejoices ...

In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and ...

'when I Begin To Write, I Open Myself And Wait. And When I Turn Toward An Inner Spiritual Awareness, I Open Myself And Wait.' With That Insight, Pat Schneid...

Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar,...

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fe...

A Comprehensive Survey Of The Significant Literature Of The English-speaking WorldCategories: Test Preparation Study Guides & WorkbooksStudy Guides

this Companion Text To introduction The Reading Of Lacan Focuses On The Concept Of The Psychic Structures Of Desire. Using Case Examples, Dor Explains The...

This is a completely updated and expanded second edition of the wide-ranging and accessible Routledge History of Literature in English. It covers the main d...

This Collection Of Essays Probes The Ways In Which Classic Children's Literature Tends To Undermine, Rather Than Support, Respectable Adult Values. Subversi...

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book AwardFrom Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about hom...

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basi...